Photo Coverage: 2012 Obie Awards - Winners & More!
By: Linda Lenzi May. 22, 2012
The 57th Annual Obie Awards were given out at a ceremony last night at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village. The awards were presented by acclaimed stage actors Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Justin Bartha, Leslie Odom Jr., Lily Rabe, Michael McKean, Tonya Pinkins, Topher Grace, and Tracee Chimo.
Numbers from this season's top Broadway musicals, including “Summertime” performed by Joshua Henry and Sumayya Ali from the cast of Porgy & Bess and “Raglan Road” performed by David PatRick Kelly from the cast of Once, were entertainment for the evening. The ceremony kicked off with two numbers from newly minted Obie winner Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra from their show No Place to Go.
The Obies were judged by a committee of seven: Brian Parks, Obie Awards Chairman and Arts & Culture editor of The Village Voice; Michael Feingold, chief theater critic for the Voice, two-time Pulitzer finalist, dramaturg, and Obie Chairman Emeritus; Alexis Soloski, a Voice theater critic as well as contributor to The New York Times, the U.K. Guardian, and BBC Radio, plus theater professor at Columbia University; Annie Baker, Best New American Play Obie winner in 2010 for her plays Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens; Anne Kauffman, accomplished director, instructor, and 2007 Obie winner for her direction of The Thugs; José Rivera, two-time Obie Award winner for his plays Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot; and HeLen Shaw, a theater critic for Time Out New York and a past Obie judge. Her writing has also appeared in The Village Voice.
4000 Miles by Amy Herzog received the Obie Award for Best New American Play, which is accompanied by a $1,000 prize. Caridad Svich—a playwright, translator, and teacher—received the Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement.
CLICK HERE for a complete list of winners on BroadwayWorld.
BroadwayWorld was on hand for the celebratory evening and brings you photo coverage below!
Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi
Tonya Pinkins and Deborah Gregory
Emily Chadick Weiss and Steven Boyer
Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson
J. Smith-Cameron and Martin Moran
Joshua Henry and Cathryn Stringer
Jesse Lenat and Sarita Choudhury
Gabriel Ebert and Mary Louise Wilson
Jay Scheib
Ken Rus Schmoll and Erin Courtney
Tracee Chimo and Justin Bartha
Tracee Chimo and Justin Bartha
Vito Dieterle
Eben Levy
Ian M. Riggs
Susan Pourfar and Jonathan Pryce
Susan Pourfar and Jonathan Pryce
J. Smith-Cameron, Laila Robins and Jon De Vries
Kirsten Greenidge and Tonya Pinkins
William Carden, Graeme Gillis and R.J. Tolan
Sue Kessler and Noel Allain
Paul Thureen, Hannah Bos and Oliver Butler
Tory Vasquez accepting for her husband, Richard Maxwell
Leslie Odom Jr. and Hugh Dancy
Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson
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